September 2025 calendar: Labor Day, Patriot Day, start of fall, more

September 2025 calendar: Labor Day, Patriot Day, start of fall, more Julia Gomez, USA TODAYSeptember 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM September 2025 calendar: Labor Day, Patriot Day, start of fall, more It's officially September! Backtoschool season is in full swing, pumpkinspice flavored menu items are here, and...

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It's officially September! Back-to-school season is in full swing, pumpkin-spice flavored menu items are here, and we finally have a federal holiday.

There are four months left in the year, and each month is jammed packed with holidays and celebrations. But September brings fall leaves and the long-awaited pumpkin-themed drinks.

The month also brings Labor Day, a federal holiday that will give folks across the country the day off. Hispanic Heritage Month will also start in the middle of September and continue until the middle of October.

So, bust out the plaid shirts, get ready to start picking apples, and enjoy the last few weeks of summer, because here's everything you about what September 2025 has in store.

Are there any federal holidays in September?

Yes! Labor Day is observed on Monday, Sept. 4, this year, and is considered a federal holiday.

In total, 2025 has 12 federal holidays across 11 days, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The next one, Columbus Day, will fall on Monday, October 13. Indigenous Peoples' Day will also fall on Oct. 13.

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What religious holidays are in September?

There are multiple religious holidays in September.

The following are some of the holidays and traditional celebrations throughout the month, according to Diversity Resources:

Mawlid al-Nabi- Begins the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 3 and ends on Thursday, Sept. 4.

Nayrouz- Thursday, Sept. 11

Mabon- Monday, Sept. 22

Rosh Hashanah- Begins at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22 and ends after nightfall on Wednesday, Sept. 24.

Durga Puja- Begins on Sunday, Sept. 28 and ends on Thursday, Oct. 2.

Other significant dates

Here are some more significant dates and anniversaries in September:

9/11 24th anniversary/ Patriot Day- Thursday, Sept. 11

Hispanic Heritage Month begins- Monday, Sept. 15

Constitution Day- Wednesday, Sept. 17

International Day of Peace- Sunday, Sept. 21

Autumn Equinox/Autumnal Equinox (start of fall): Monday, Sept. 22

When is September's full moon? And other celestial events

On the day of the full moon, people can look forward to seeing an eclipse, too. Here's what people can expect, according to NASA:

Full Moon/Harvest Moon- Sunday, Sept. 7

Total Lunar eclipse- Begins the night of Sunday, Sept. 7 and ends in the early morning of Monday, Sept. 8. The eclipse will not be visible in the U.S.

New moon- Sunday, Sept. 21

Fall Equinox- Monday, Sept 22

Partial Solar Eclipse- Sunday, Sept. 21. The eclipse is not visible in the U.S.

Fun (unofficial) national holidays and unique days in September

The following are some of the more unique and odd days celebrated throughout September, according to the National Day Calendar:

National Lazy Mom's Day- Friday, Sept. 5

National Be Late for Something Day and National Cheese Pizza Day- Saturday, Sept. 5

Star Trek Day- Monday, Sept. 8

National Bald is Beautiful Day- Saturday, Sept. 13

Talk like a Pirate Day- Friday, Sept. 19

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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders: What to Know

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders: What to Know Miranda JeyaretnamSeptember 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM Nur Al Rimlawi, a Palestinian artist in Gaza, holds her Palestinian passport, on which she's painted countries she wishes she could visit, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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The Trump Administration has suspended nearly all types of nonimmigrant visas for Palestinian passport holders, U.S. officials told the New York Times.

The blanket suspension marks an escalation from earlier restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter the U.S. The policy, issued in an Aug. 18 cable from the State Department to all U.S. embassies and consulates, temporarily suspends visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives, and business, according to the Times. It is not clear how long the suspension will remain in place.

"While the Department has determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a competent authority for passport issuing purposes … the United States does NOT recognize the PA as a 'foreign government,'" the cable said, according to CNN.

Here's what to know about the new measure.

Policy expands U.S. visa curbs on Palestinians

The internal message reportedly instructed embassies and consulates to deny nonimmigrant visas to "all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders." The guidance also applies to Palestinian passport holders applying for diplomatic or official visas, the cable reportedly said.

The cable reportedly instructs officials to invoke section 221-G of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act in refusing the visas, which requires U.S. officials to conduct a further review of the applicant. The policy does not affect people with dual nationalities who apply for a visa using a different passport.

The State Department began revoking and denying the visas of Palestinian officials last week ahead of the United Nations General Assembly this month. Earlier in August, the U.S. also said it would stop issuing visitor visas to Palestinians from Gaza, including those seeking humanitarian and medical treatment.

Palestinian passport holders—whether from Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, or elsewhere—will be impacted by the new measures. Palestinian Authority passports have been issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, subject to Israeli approval, since 1995. It's unclear how many people hold Palestinian passports today.

Measures come as international condemnation of Israel grows

The directive comes as a growing number of countries have condemned Israel's ongoing military bombardment of Gaza and what several humanitarian organizations have described as a genocide.

The nearly two-year-long Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 Israelis (including those killed in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel), according to Gaza's Health Ministry and Israeli authorities. In the absence of independent monitoring on the ground, Gaza's Health Ministry is the primary source for casualty data relied upon by humanitarian groups, journalists, and international bodies. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified by TIME. Data from the Israel Defense Forces indicates a Palestinian civilian death rate of 83%. The figure for Israeli casualties includes both civilians and combatants.

Several U.S. allies have criticized Israel over its killing of aid seekers, humanitarian workers, and journalists, as well as its blockade of humanitarian aid and forced displacement of Palestinians. Canada, France, and the U.K., said in July that they will recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly—with more countries following suit—prompting condemnations from Israel and the U.S., Israel's biggest ally.

The Trump Administration has also cracked down on pro-Palestinian activism across the U.S., including introducing new immigration and citizenship restrictions that include screening for "anti-Americanism" and targeting pro-Palestinian student activists for immigration action, which critics say has chilled free speech.

"Every visa decision is a national security decision, and the State Department is vetting and adjudicating visa decisions for PA passport holders accordingly," a State Department spokesperson told CNN. But not everyone accepts that pretense.

"Are there true national security concerns?" Kerry Doyle, former lead attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Biden Administration, questioned to the Times. "Or is it politically based to support the position of Israel and/or to avoid uncomfortable issues being raised when folks get here if they speak out about the issues over the war?"

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A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills at least 250 people and injures 500 September 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border has killed at least 250 people and injured at least 500 others, officials said.

The quake late Sunday hit a series of towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangahar province. The 6.0 magnitude at 11:47 p.m. was centered 27 kilometers (17 miles) east-northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage.

The Kunar Disaster Management Authority said in a statement that at least 250 people were killed and 500 others injured in the districts of Nur Gul, Soki, Watpur, Manogi and Chapadare.

Jalalabad is a bustling trade city due to its proximity with neighboring Pakistan and a key border crossing between the countries. Although it has a population of about 300,000 according to the municipality, it's metropolitan area is thought to be far larger. Most of its buildings are low-rise constructions, mostly of concrete and brick, and its outlying areas include homes built of mud bricks and wood. Many are of poor construction.

Jalalabad also has considerable agriculture and farming, including citrus fruit and rice, with the Kabul River flowing through the city.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2023, followed by strong aftershocks. The Taliban government estimated at least 4,000 people perished.

The U.N. gave a far lower death toll of about 1,500. It was the deadliest natural disaster to strike Afghanistan in recent memory.

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Global media outlets unite to protest Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza

Global media outlets unite to protest Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza Christian Edwards, Ibrahim Dahman, CNNSeptember 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam alMasri, a Reuters contractor, lies at the site where he was killed along with other journalists and people ...

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Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, lies at the site where he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza, August 25, 2025. - Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Multiple media outlets are coordinating a large-scale protest on Monday to demand Israel stop the killing of journalists in Gaza and call for international press to be allowed into the enclave to report freely.

Nearly 200 outlets from 50 countries will take part in the demonstration, according to organizers, with print newspapers running blacked-out front pages, broadcasters and radio stations interrupting their programming and online outlets disrupting their home pages.

The protest, coordinated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Avaaz and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), aims to draw attention to the alarming number of journalists killed during Israel's war in Gaza.

At least 210 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, IFJ said, making the conflict the deadliest for reporters in modern times. Meanwhile, Israel has barred international media from reporting freely in Gaza, leaving Palestinian journalists to report under fire.

"At the rate at which journalists are being killed in Gaza by the IDF, soon there will be no one left to keep the world informed. This is not only a war on Gaza, it is a war on journalism itself," said Thibat Bruttin, director general of RSF.

"Journalists are being killed, they are being targeted, they are being defamed. Without them, who will speak of famine, who will expose war crimes, who will denounce genocides?"

The demonstration comes after the recent killings of several prominent Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

In early August, Israel killed five staff members from the news network Al Jazeera in a strike on Gaza City, days after the security cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a plan to take over the city.

Among those killed was Anas Al-Sharif, one of the most well-known Palestinian journalists in Gaza. He became a household name for many in the Arab world due to his daily coverage of the conflict and its humanitarian toll.

Last week, Israel killed another five journalists in back-to-back strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, in a tactic known as a "double tap."

After the first strike on the hospital, people rushed to treat the wounded while journalists arrived to report. Then, Israel struck again.

Video obtained exclusively by CNN showed the second "tap" was in fact two near-simultaneous strikes. These second and third strikes appear to have caused most of the deaths.

Netanyahu conceded the incident was a "tragic mishap."

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China's Xi unveils vision for new global order at security forum

China's Xi unveils vision for new global order at security forum Laurie Chen and Mei Mei ChuSeptember 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM By Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu TIANJIN (Reuters) Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members to leverage their "megascale market" on Monday, while...

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TIANJIN (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members to leverage their "mega-scale market" on Monday, while unveiling his ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the United States.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has set a model for a new type of international relations, Xi said in opening remarks addressing more than 20 world leaders at a two-day summit held in northern China's port city Tianjin.

"We should advocate for equal and orderly multipolarisation of the world, inclusive economic globalisation and promote the construction of a more just and equitable global governance system," he said.

China will provide 2 billion yuan ($280 million) of free aid to member states this year and a further 10 billion yuan of loans to a SCO banking consortium, he added.

"We must take advantage of the mega-scale market... to improve the level of trade and investment facilitation," said Xi, urging the bloc to boost cooperation in fields including energy, infrastructure, science and technology, and artificial intelligence.

Russia's Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia attended the opening ceremony in a major show of Global South solidarity.

The security-focused bloc, which began as a group of six Eurasian nations, has expanded to 10 permanent members and 16 dialogue and observer countries in recent years.

Xi also called on organisation partners to "oppose Cold War mentality and bloc confrontation" and to support multilateral trade systems, an apparent dig at U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war which has disproportionately affected developing economies such as India, whose exports were hit with a 50% levy last week.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said China played a "fundamental" role in upholding global multilateralism on Sunday.

Analysts say China will use this year's largest-ever summit to demonstrate an alternative vision of global governance to the American-led international order at a time of erratic policymaking, a U.S. retreat from multilateral organisations and geopolitical flux.

Beijing has also used the summit as an opportunity to mend ties with New Delhi.

Modi, who is in China on his first visit in seven years, and Xi both agreed on Sunday their countries are development partners, not rivals, and discussed ways to improve trade ties amid the global tariff uncertainty.

($1 = 7.1529 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu in Tianjin, Liz Lee and Qiaoyi Li in Shanghai; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Lincoln Feast.)

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Indonesia president makes concessions after days of deadly protests forced him to scrap China summit trip

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A protester carries looted goods on a street in front of a police headquarters that was set on fire and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya on Sunday. - Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images

Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers' benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country's worst violence in decades.

Protests began on Monday over what demonstrators called excessive pay and housing allowances for parliamentarians, escalating into riots on Friday after a motorcycle rideshare driver was killed during police action at a protest site.

Homes of political party members and state buildings were ransacked or set ablaze, shaking investor confidence in the Southeast Asian economy and triggering a steep selloff on its stocks and currency markets on Friday.

Looters broke into a house owned by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati outside the capital Jakarta overnight, state news agency Antara reported on Sunday. She was not in the house at the time and it was not clear if she uses the property often.

More protests are planned for Monday, and student groups did not call them off after Prabowo's announcement.

Prabowo, speaking at a press conference at the Presidential Palace and flanked by the leaders of various political parties, said he had ordered the military and police to take stern action against rioters and looters. He said some of the unrest bore the signs of terrorism and treason.

"Leaders in parliament have conveyed that they will revoke a number of parliament policies, including the size of allowances for members of parliament and a moratorium on overseas work trips," Prabowo said.

"To the police and the military, I have ordered them to take action as firm as possible against the destruction of public facilities, looting at homes of individuals and economic centers, according to the laws," he added.

Challenge to Prabowo

The protests represent the most significant challenge yet to Prabowo's government, which has faced little political opposition since taking office nearly a year ago.

Prabowo, who canceled a high-profile trip to China due to the unrest, also met on Sunday with key members of his cabinet at the Presidential Palace to discuss the situation.

Many ministers and political leaders arriving at the palace used civilian number plates instead of special ones given to officials, a witness said, in an apparent security measure as unrest simmered in some places.

The military was deployed to guard the palace on top of the usual secret service detail. Many key ministers' homes and government installations were also being guarded by the military on Sunday.

It remains unclear who is behind the rioting and looting that followed the protests, which were initially organized by student associations.

Muzammil Ihsan, head of the All Indonesian Students' Executives Body, the country's largest student umbrella group, told Reuters cutting lawmakers' perks was "not enough" and said further demonstrations were being "considered."

"The government must resolve deep-rooted problems. The anger on the streets is not without cause," Ihsan said.

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto walks to speak about a recent wave of nationwide protests during a press conference alongside political party leaders at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Sunday. - Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Tegar Afriansyah, the chairman of a smaller student group, Indonesian Student League for Democracy, which has been protesting since Monday, said the presidential announcement does not address the root of the problem, which is "political oligarchy and an unequal economic structure."

He termed Prabowo's instructions to police and military as "clearly repressive and intimidating."

Global rights watchdog Amnesty International's Indonesia chapter in a statement termed Prabowo's use of terms such as treason and terrorism as "excessive."

TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, said it had suspended its live feature in Indonesia for a few days.

The death toll rose to five on Sunday, according to the local disaster management agency in Makassar, South Sulawesi province. It said an online motorcycle taxi driver was beaten to death by a mob accusing him of being an intelligence agent.

Three others were killed in an arson attack on the local parliament building on Friday.

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Robert Mueller Reportedly Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease Harold HutchisonSeptember 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM FBI Director Robert Mueller Testifies At Senate Judiciary Committee Of FBI Oversight ©Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Former FBI Director and special counsel Robert Mueller has been diagnosed ...

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Former FBI Director and special counsel Robert Mueller has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, leading the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to withdraw a subpoena, according to the New York Times.

Mueller had been subpoenaed to testify on the FBI's handling of a federal probe into disgraced financial advisor Jeffrey Epstein in the 2000s, the Times reported. The House Oversight Committee is probing how the George W. Bush administration handled the case, in which Epstein reached a plea agreement. (RELATED: 'Really Astonishing': Jonathan Turley Stunned By Brennan, Clapper Russiagate Claims In NYT Op-Ed)

Mueller has been living in a memory-care facility according to previous reporting, which did not mention specifics about the cause for the move. The House Oversight Committee reportedly withdrew its subpoena of Mueller August 18 due to his health issues.

During President Donald Trump's first term, the Department of Justice (DOJ) appointed Mueller as a special counsel to look into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. A report Mueller penned following the investigation concluded that there was no collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign.

Epstein, who pleaded guilty to sex charges in 2008, reportedly committed suicide in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial after he was arrested in 2019 on new charges.

The disgraced financier had extensive ties to celebrities, politicians, and executives, even after he was a convicted sex offender. Among those who were known to have been close were L Brands founder Lex Wexner, director Woody Allen, and Prince Andrew.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also met with Epstein repeatedly, as did employees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with Gates meeting with the registered sex offender as late as 2019 despite concerns expressed by his then-wife, Melinda, according to a May 2021 report by The Wall Street Journal.

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